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Multidisciplinary Tracking of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Outbreak in Griffon Vultures, Southern Europe, 2022
Julien Hirschinger, Ursula Höfle, Alberto Sánchez-Cano, Claire Guinat, Guillaume Croville, Marta Barral, José Antonio Donázar, Chloé Le Gall Ladevèze, Mathilda Walch, Vega Alvarez, Xeider Gerrikagoitia, Louis Du Plessis, Simon Dellicour, Eneko Arrondo, José Antonio Sánchez-Zapata, Ainara Cortés-Avizanda, Sara Minayo Martín, Jérémy Tornos, Samuel Perret, Thierry Boulinier, Pascal Orabi, Anne Van De Wiele, Jean Luc Guerin, Olivier Duriez, and Guillaume Le Loc’h
Author affiliation: IHAP, ENVT, INRAE, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France (J. Hirschinger, C. Guinat, G. Croville, C. Le Gall Ladevèze, M. Walch, J.L. Guerin, G. Le Loc’h); Grupo SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, Ciudad Real, Spain (U. Höfle, A. Sánchez-Cano, S. Minayo Martín); NEIKER–Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain (M. Barral, V. Alvarez, X. Gerrikagoitia); Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain (J.A. Donázar, A. Cortés-Avizanda); ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland (L. Du Plessis); Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland (L. Du Plessis); Spatial Epidemiology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (S. Dellicour); Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (S. Dellicour); Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain (J.A. Sánchez-Zapata); Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France (J. Tornos, S. Perret, T. Boulinier, O. Duriez); Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux, Rochefort, France (P. Orabi); Office Français de la Biodiversité, Vincennes, France (A. Van De Wiele); Department of Zoology, University of Granada, Avenida de Fuentenueva S/N CP:18071 Granada, Spain (E. Arrondo)
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Figure 3. Movements of 16 individual birds during March 1–June 30, 2022, and March 1–June 30, 2023, in study of multidisciplinary tracking of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) outbreak in griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus), southern Europe, 2022. Immature birds (A) and adult birds (B) show long-range transit movements (rectilinear movements with nocturnal roosts spaced >50 km apart) in red for 2022 and orange for 2023; local movements are shown in gray for both years. C) Timeline of the proportion of individual birds (all ages pooled) in transit every day in 2022 and 2023.
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